Sham Expression of Popular Will

in the campaign “Annexation and Sovietization of Western Ukraine (1939–1941)”

The staging of a no-alternative "People's Assembly" under the control of occupation troops to give the seizure legal form: "On October 27 in Lviv, the People's Assembly of Western Ukraine of 1939 adopted the Declaration on the reunification of Western Ukraine with the Ukrainian SSR, and on November 1 the Supreme Soviet of the USSR passed the law admitting Western Ukraine, as part of the Ukrainian SSR, into the USSR"[1].

ID: C0081.T0109
Start: September 1939
End: June 1941
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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